Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Abundant Evidence." Thus cheered on by the defense, Prosecutor Dimiter Georgiev saw no reason to prolong the trial. He produced no documentary evidence of the espionage charge and cut his witnesses short. Said he: "The evidence is abundant and clear." He demanded the death penalty for four of the defendants, heavy prison terms for the others...
Last week Presiding Judge Konstantin Undzhiev pronounced sentence. Because of the "pastors' honest and sincere confessions," said Undzhiev, he had waived the death penalty. The four principal defendants-the heads of Bulgaria's Congregational, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal churches-got life imprisonment; nine of their associates drew prison terms ranging from five to 15 years, and two got off with suspended sentences...
...employees showed up for work. On the first day there was a scuffle at the mill gates. Ailing Mrs. Charles Cardy, 45, a Penman's worker for 20 years, collapsed in the snow, later died in the hospital. Although the coroner ruled that Mrs. Cardy's death was not caused by strike violence, the Town Council was taking no chances. They called in the Ontario provincial police to help halt the daily mix-up between strikers and nonstrikers. The provincials seized a blackjack from one worker. Two policemen were stabbed with women's hatpins. Children...
...hypothetical animal, credited to 14th Century French Philosopher Jean Buridan (and others), which suffered from the hypothetical dilemma of perfectly balanced but conflicting desires for two different piles of hay. Hypothetically, he starved to death...
...discussion from the floor, it appeared that about half the churchmen were dead set against it. Cried Lutheran Pastor Ernest Edwin Ryden of Rock Island, Ill.: "[It] would divide the world into two armed camps. It would sign the death warrant of the United Nations!" Said the Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, famed pacifist pastor of the Evanston (Ill.) First Methodist Church: "It is aggressive to Russia-just as a similar alliance between Russia and Latin America would appear aggressive to the American people...